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View all articles →Antibiotics Are an Economic Failure
Social practice and market shortcomings are the bottleneck for solving antibiotic resistance; not molecular discovery.
How to Build a Strep A Vaccine
After decades of scientific and regulatory delays, several Strep A vaccine candidates are entering clinical trials. Without further funding for phase 3 studies, however, many will be hamstrung.
Metaphors for Biology: Evolution
A series of quantitative metaphors on the speeds of representative events in evolutionary biology. The end of our three-part series.
A Brief History of Lab Notebooks
How experimental recordings have changed, from the Renaissance through today.
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Designing AI for Disruptive Science
Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts.
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View all podcasts →How to Terraform Mars
With Erika DeBenedictis
Pioneer Labs has made its first microbe capable of growing in simulated Martian soil and making building materials.
"SpudCell will replicate continuously by 2030"
With Kate Adamala
Kate Adamala joins The New Biology to discuss SpudCell and the prospect of continuous replication by 2030.